Torment Quotes

361 quotes by 286 authors

Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes . . . he balances between the… — Vaclav Havel
In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience. — Richard Baxter
It seems like many people think that if you drive yourself crazy, then you can write. Iâ€™m absolutely not interested in that. It made sense… — Kay Ryan
Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people, church members, even… — John R. Rice
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking… — Elizabeth Drew
The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness. — Claude Bernard
Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken. — Gautama Buddha
There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us. — Teresa of Avila
Let fire and the cross; let the crowds of wild beasts; let tearings ... let shatterings of the whole body; and let all the evil… — Ignatius of Antioch
I've never met a couple yet who, when they were walking down the aisle, said, 'What we want is three years of happiness, two years… — Wade Horn
... I feel tired to death, paralyzed by this mysteriously wasted life's stubborn concentration on hopelessness and dissolution. It occurs to me that if I… — Christer Kihlman
If fortune torments me, hope contents me. — William Shakespeare
Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that… — Julio Cortazar
I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me. — Alfred de Musset
I try to write about the stuff that torments us all. — Danielle Steel
With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington. They must be… — David McCullough
We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful. — Andrew Solomon
As to those in whom the will of God is not inwardly accomplished,-because there is no inward life in them, for they are altogether outward,-upon… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some… — Angus Wilson
I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them — Don Meyer

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